Speeding Timber Output Road to New Forest Area
Wauchope will be the key timber centre for the next eight months in the Forestry Commission scheme to speed up timber to Sydney log mills, said…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Police Court Tuesday, January 21 (Before Messrs. H. G. Cobley and A. W. Molony, J's.P.) Trespassing: on Railway Premises
Leo. Gladstone McCarthy (48) was charged with trespassing on premises vested in the Commissioner for Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Injured Motorist Wandered Away to Die in Bush
When a jeep turned over on the Barellan-Narandera road on Saturday night, the driver Mr. Warren Riley wandered dazed into the bush and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coolamon Railway Returns for 1946 60,000 Sheep and Lambs Despatched
During 1946, 588 trucks of stock, mostly lambs, were despatched from the Coolamon railway stationâa total of about 60,000 lambs and sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leeton Shire Council Dangerous Gum Trees Corrugated Trunk Road; Narandera Aerodrome
MATTERS dealt with at the meeting of Leeton Shire Council on Thursday night of last week arising out of correspondence,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hay Train Service
Although the Commissioner has stated that the daily trip by a fast train from Narandera to Hay and return is possible, it is not considered that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Road Links Planned for Wagga Airfield
Additional radio equipment is to be installed at the R.A.A.F. airfield at Wagga, the Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. Drakeford) has announced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Block to Swimming Pool Swimming Club's Application Fails
The Tumut Swimming Club wrote to the Shire Council, asking that the matter of a road Mock to the swimming pool be left to their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Institute Narandera Branch's Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Narandera branch of the Railways' Institute was held on Thursday last. Mr. W. Armstrong, Supervisor of Classes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerodrome Buildings to Be Offered at Auction
Mr. J. W. Conley, property officer in New South Wales of the Commonwealth Disposals Commission, and other departmental officers, visited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mechanical Gadgets Teaching Road Safety in U.k
As part of a big drive for road safety, mechanical devices are teaching hundreds each day how to keep death off Britain's roads. Every class of road user Is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road and Rail Contest; C.V. Transport Must Increase
[The competition between road and rail is one of Australia's greatest transport problems. This article suggests that with the return to normal conditions, the railways must suffer.]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-cycling Cootamundra Visits Temora
An excellent day's sport was held at Temora on Anniversary Day, when combined car and motor-bike races were conducted under the auspices of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narandera Railway Institute Officers Elected
Mr. W. Armstrong, supervisor of the Sydney Railway Institute classes, attended the annual meeting of Narandera branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Flying Motor Car" Tests Successful
A flying motor car—the "Airphibian"—has recently undergone test flights at Connecticut (U.S.A.). Designed and built by R. E…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors and Motoring Notes Know Your Car (10) Importance of Lubrication
The regular application of oils and grease, and minor mechanical adjustments, will give your vehicle added miles of service and will avoid untimely breakdowns…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leaf From Train
A report that a young man wearing Naval trousers, a navy blue coat, and carrying a kit bag, had jumped from a slow-moving train, at North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cloudburst Stops Train
Four trains between Adelaide and Perth were held up because of a tropical cloudburst at Cook, in which five inches of rain fell in two hours…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Started a Fire
About ten acres of pass were burnt when a fire started near the railway line and spread on to Mr. G. R. Barbour's property, "Woodlea," Bowning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Khancoban-Kosciusko Road an Engineering Possibility Says Shire Engineer
At the last meeting of the Tumbaramba Shire Council, the Engineer (Mr. D. W. Roberison) reported on an…
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